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      <h1 class="post-heading">Climate Tech and Geoengineering Face Growing Two-party Backlash</h1>

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    Because lawmakers want more oversight and public responsibility, new climate solutions like carbon removal, solar geoengineering, and atmospheric interventions are facing opposition from both parties.
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        <div class="post-author">BY <span>JORDAN LEE</span></div>
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        Environmental organizations are no longer the only parties engaged in the climate technology discussion.  Both Republicans and Democrats are now beginning to question this. Now that what was once a specialized policy argument has turned into a hot political issue, Congress finds it more difficult to secure funding for some of the most innovative climate technology. Opposition to the large carbon-removal programs and the early geoengineering studies has come from a wide range of groups, including party officials, aboriginal nations, community activists, and rural residents.
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          Lawmakers from Vermont, New York, Texas, and Alaska have questioned the technology's potential applications, potential impacts on local communities, and who should be in control in the event of an emergency during hearings. The federal government's efforts to reduce emissions are reportedly progressing more quickly than the technologies designed to monitor them. In order to help cool the Earth, one of the most talked-about concepts is solar geoengineering, which involves reflecting sunlight off objects. Democratic progressives fear that this approach will divert attention from the pressing need to reduce emissions at their source. Conservative legislators, meanwhile, are concerned that federal agencies may overreact or unintentionally alter the weather.
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        Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects are much harder to do in some parts of the Midwest and Gulf Coast.   The 2020 Mississippi pipeline disaster, which sent hundreds of people to the hospital, is still changing people's minds.  Farmers, landowners, environmental groups, and libertarian activists looked at the long-term effects of storage wells and underground CO₂ pipelines, as well as safety issues, at recent hearings in Louisiana and Iowa.    Even if industrial polluters said that CCS was needed to cut emissions, this was still true.
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        <p>“Communities don’t want to be test sites for technologies that haven’t been publicly debated”</p>
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       Scientists still don't agree on a few things. If the United States wants to meet its long-term climate goals, many scientists think it needs to make technology that can take carbon out of the air. Some people say that laws, public opinion, and safety rules haven't kept up with how quickly technology is changing. The Department of Energy and other federal agencies have given more money to carbon-storage hubs, geological injection wells, and air-capture systems. 
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        State officials say it's hard to keep up with all the new plans that are coming out because of federal climate incentives.   The Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act have given billions of dollars to projects that remove carbon, build hydrogen hubs, and test ways to decarbonize industry.  A lot of these projects are near small towns or tribal areas.
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        Environmental justice groups say that pipeline corridors, geological injection wells, and industrial-scale removal facilities could be especially dangerous for poor areas if there aren't stronger protections in place.</p>
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        A number of states are asking for federal rules on geoengineering research, routing carbon pipelines, and long-term storage of CO₂ underground.   Analysts say that the growing bipartisan concern could make Congress create new rules for climate-tech oversight in 2026.
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        Right now, political momentum suggests that climate technology is about to enter a new and more controversial phase. This phase will be marked by more public doubt about the risks and management of developing solutions, not by a lack of support for climate action.
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